Consistency and Quality in Every Classroom

Running a childcare center means balancing the needs of children, teachers, and families every day. A well-designed childcare curriculum ensures that every classroom offers consistent, high-quality learning experiences that prepare children for school and life.

  • Provides a framework teachers can use with confidence
  • Builds developmental skills across age groups
  • Supports licensing and state early learning standards

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The top-rated early childcare curriculum

The Creative Curriculum for Infants
Nurture the whole child and personalize skill development to each infant during the most critical period of rapid growth and development.
The Creative Curriculum for Toddlers
Easily individualize learning for every toddler, every day, with our 1st-of-its-kind print and digital curriculum with integrated ongoing guided assessment.
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The Creative Curriculum for Preschool
Build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations.
The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K
Make a big impact with a pre-K curriculum that nurtures children's curiosity and promotes development and learning in the year before kindergarten.
The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten
Encourage all children to think critically, solve problems, and connect ideas. When kindergarteners investigate, discover, and play, they learn.
Transitional Kindergarten Curriculum
Make a big impact with a transitional kindergarten curriculum that nurtures children's curiosity and promotes development and learning.
The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care
Set up learning experiences for all children with the only comprehensive childcare curriculum for the family child care setting

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What Is The Creative Curriculum?

The Creative Curriculum is an early childhood curriculum that builds children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations. Trusted for decades by early childhood educators, our curriculum:

  • serves infants, toddlers, and twos; preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten children; and children in family childcare;
  • respects and nurtures individual skill progression for the whole child;
  • harnesses the power of play through studies that engage learners as young as 2;
  • seamlessly connects families to their children’s learning; and
  • provides intentional support for every teacher every day.

Comprehensive Curriculum for Early Childhood Education

Nurture children’s curiosity and promote development and learning in every area that is critical to their success as learners with these three components:

  • smart planning and teaching tools,
  • professional development, and
  • print resources.

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Built by Educators for Educators

We know early childhood educators face new challenges every day. That’s why we listen to educators’ feedback and build our curriculum alongside them to ensure we meet your needs. The Creative Curriculum:

  • takes the guesswork out of planning,
  • harnesses the power of play to help children learn,
  • sets children up for success by meeting them where they are, and
  • provides teachers with day-to-day support paired with long-term professional development.

Ready to take a look inside The Creative Curriculum? Learn more about this amazing curriculum, how it works, the research behind it, what is included, how to view a sample study, and so much more.

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The Creative Curriculum for Infants

The Creative Curriculum for Toddlers

The Creative Curriculum for Twos

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool

The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K

The Creative Curriculum for Transitional Kindergarten

The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten

The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care

At a Glance – What’s Included

Lesson Plans & Teaching Guides

Digital Planning & Assessment